Azure Services Platform Step by Step II

Forget SQL Server 200x--introducing SQL Data Services (SDS) [now renamed SQL Azure]

As I mentioned in the previous article, with SQL Services, as a general development of small and medium sized applications, you can forget the existence of SQL Server 200X completely. Is it that amazing? Now it's time to learn more about the sanctity of SQL services.

In most cases, Web applications need to rely on another database server. This database service needs to be maintained by professional it people. Before you deploy your application, you need to think too much: Does the data server have enough capacity? What about the performance? Stability and security? Load? There are too many unknown factors ...

According to the basic concept of cloud computing, to solve the above problems, we need to cloud-based data platform, that is, to put the services in the cloud, relying on a strong cloud operating system and platform hardware to deal with. That's right. SQL data Services (SDS) is such a "cloud" based on the platform.

What is SDS?

SDS is a powerful, Internet-facing database that provides robust, secure, and flexible data base services. SDS provides two standard interfaces for soap and rest, and is detached from traditional programming languages so that coder with any language can easily manipulate it.

Why should SDS be used?

Flexibility and scale,business-ready reliability and Security,developer agility

The status of SDS in Azure Services platform:

SDS is one of the four main modules of Azure, providing data services for applications in the sky and providing data services for other Azure services modules in the cloud.